Improved hoop-machine



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PATENT :Mmm/Eo Hoop-MACHINE.

Speeicatioufurming part of Let-ters Patent N0. 40,613,- dtbted November 17', 1853.

a 'certain new and Improved Machine `for.

Forming Sawed or Cut Spliuts into' Barrel- Hoops; and I do hereby declare the followingr :to be a full and accurate description ofthe same, reference being had to the accompany-- ing drawings, making part of' this specicaton, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, same letters referring to like parts in Of said drawings, Figure l is apla'np-of my improved machine.K Fig.'2 is an elevation of the same, and Fig. 8. is a section of the central lFig. 4 isa section of the hoop.

' The nature of'this invention 'will begbestunt derstood from a description of its construction and mode of operation.

In a' .sui table frame I place a lhollow disk or.

- short cylinder, said cylinder being atachedto a hollowhaft or mandrel ca rryinga puley,

bywhieh the whole machine maybe driven,l

' A. section of this cylinder, shaft, and'` pulley is given iujlig. 3, byl which it will be -seen that fit (the cylinderl may he heated bymeans of 'steam orhot air, and also vthat its outer-edge;

is somewhat groored, so as to guide the hoop splintinitsV passage around it, and valso `Vto,

yallow room for the thickedgeof the splints,

they being cut.somen'hat'thickerat one'edge ycome out with .the ,parted toit.

. latin g the pressure of the outer series'of roll ers, to be presently described, this form can begiven to each hoop with lthe greatest ref quired ac curacy. Inthe same frame which carries the central cylinder,"(l, I. arrangera series 'of rol-lers,'R R R R R R It, which are adjusted to aproper distance ftom the cylinder C by .means of set-screws, while at the same time entirefrigidity is avoided by the.

use of springs. -Motion being 'communicated to the'central cylinder .by means of the pulley P, 'a hoop-splint fed into the machine will pass between the cylinder C and rollers R, and Willl proper curve and shape im- By 'means of this machine,.lnmber, if green, may' (after being cutv into splints) 'be formed into Ahoops without the aid of steaming or boiling. If dry, it will he necessary at least-to. boil the splints-Fa much easierprocess than steamingwhenthe hotcyli'nde'r will squeeze andv dry themso as to leavethem nearly fit for market, while at. the same time their sur" -t'ace is so compressed and smoothed as to addff greatly tol their appearance amldurability,l Having thus described my inventionfwhat I'claim therein as new, and desire to secure lgy The method herein @Jenin meeneem Witnesses@ described ot `forming splints in tohoops bypassing them b'et' vv fe e'1'1 ya'1 .serileso'f rollersarranged-and operating inthe maviir-and for the purpose substantially as; fdesccihedl 

